Trailer: The Race Climate Change Festival (2021)

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Spectrum Dance Theater Presents The Race & Climate Change Festival
June 1 – 30, 2021 | Online

Spectrum’s Race & Climate Change Festival is the culmination of a two-year-long exploration of speculations on the future, post-climate disaster, and how climate change will disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minorities in the United States.

This month-long virtual Festival will unfold across multiple dimensions at the intersection of Science, Race, Afro-Futurism, Imagination, Speculation, Sci-Fi, Social Sciences, and Philosophy.

The Festival experience invites visitors to explore and imagine future communities, called shucks, coping with the long-term impacts of climate change on the physical world and humanity. This glimpse into the future showcases the stories of surviving humans, how they have adapted to the new reality, and their interpretation of the impact and events of pre-climate disaster.

Highlights of the Festival include:

POOL/After
Premiere Date: June 4, 2021
POOL/After, a world premiere production, is a two-part danced ritual that future humans (2090 and beyond) have developed due to the deification of Greta Thunberg and the appearance in the shucks of a mysterious Black woman called “she who sees”.

Note: This production was scheduled to premiere during the Race & Climate Change Festival in the Spring of 2020. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the production was postponed (see our mini-documentary, “A Dance to Be that Never Was”).

Afro-Futurism, Black Women, and Climate Change
Premiere Date: June 10, 2021
A humanities program accompanies Spectrum’s dance presentations about the impacts of Climate Change. Curated by Beverly Aarons and Vivian Phillips, the program features readings from four local women writers on Afro-Futurism, and a moderated discussion between Dr. Na’Taki Osborne Jelks and Jourdan Keith on Black Women Leaders in the Climate Change Movement.

Youth Engaging with Climate Justice
Premiere Date: June 12, 2021
This virtual presentation centers around the group of youth that inspired Donald Byrd to explore the current and future impacts of the relationship between Race and Climate Change. Over the past calendar year, this group has cultivated a youth-centered space to learn, discuss, and organize around the intersectionality of Race, Climate Justice, and Art Practice. This presentation is a creative distillation and contemplation of that work.

The Race & Climate Festival TalkBack
Premiere Date: June 30, 2021
On the final day of the Festival, all Pass-holders are invited to a behind-the-scenes look into the making of The Race & Climate Change Festival with Donald Byrd and the creative and production teams

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